In the Lovelace Studio Theater Brooklyn’s National Sawdust is one of the most innovative venues in the country, a place where emerging and established artists can share their music with serious fans and casual listeners alike.

I will be workshopping with the participants of The Girl Project to create a new performance art sound installation based on the female experience and what it means to be a young women in contemporary society.

"Longtime New Yorker and contemporary music advocate Jessica Meyer curates a series ofvirtuosic concerts showcasing innovative string playing by sought-after classical musicians who also champion works by living composers."

In our last concert of the season, PQ will celebrate this season's PQA composers in a special concert featuring NYC and World Premieres!

Performing Forward Music Project's commission, "memories lie dormant: they are reviled before they are revealed" by Morgan Krauss on the New Music Gathering opening night performance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Join us for an afternoon of incredible music at the 2018 Bang on a Can marathon. This incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world features ten hours of performances by some of the most innovative musicians of our time. Contemporaneous will perform side-by-side with the Bang on a Can All Stars, with thrilling new music from Jeffrey Brooks,Fjóla Evans, andDylan Mattingly.

IRON & COAL is an intimate musical journey through the Holocaust's lingering emotional wounds on a survivor and his son. Contemporaneous joins composer, singer, songwriter, and lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld in his evening-length work commemorating his father, newly arranged by co-artistic director David Bloom. This staged production is directed by Kevin Newbury.

PUBLIQuartet presents a program of works by a diverse body of composers, featuring the world premiere of a Washington Performing Arts co-commission by composer Jessica Meyer. Program includes works by PAULINE OLIVEROS, JESSIE MONTGOMERY, MEREDITH MONK, CAROLINE SHAW, JIHYUN KIM, and more.

OPERA AMERICA SHOWCASE: operas in progress commissioned and produced by National Sawdust. Featuring excerpts from Paola Prestini's Old Man and the Sea for cello + loop pedal and two tenors, Anthony Roth Costanzo and Zachary James.

On February 10 from 2:30 - 4:30, PUBLIQuartet will conduct masterclass sessions with two learning quartets in a live event at the National Opera Center, New York City. A multi-camera crew will film the event for live stream across the internet to audiences everywhere. Chamber music players wherever they are can watch on their computers in real time and submit their comments and questions via a live chat feed.

Irish vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird, called “one of the most dramatic voices in contemporary music” by The Guardian, and “magnificently expressive” by The New York Times, applies his profound and soaring voice to composer Kate Moore’s Bushranger Psychodrama, a new piece created specifically for him, and performed this evening with PUBLIQuartet string quartet. Co-commissioned by Symphony Space and National Concert Hall Dublin.

Contemporaneous performs on the 2018 PROTOTYPE Festival, the premier opera-theater festival, with a concert presentation of the first act of composer Dylan Mattingly and librettist Thomas Bartscherer's Stranger Love.

Discover Miami’s own genre-bending, 21st-century orchestra, Nu Deco Ensemble. Conductor Jacomo Rafael Bairos journeys through the classical and popular genres we love, as well as unique reimaginations by Nu Deco co-founder, Sam Hyken. PLUS! Celebrate the holidays with Chorale-led holiday favorites in the foyer. Embark on a musical exploration that will be a gift to yourself, your family and friends.

Steven Snowden's commission, "Silent Sentinels" for string quartet and electronics, honors the Centennial of the "Night of Terror" when 33 Suffragists called the Silent Sentinels were arrested and brutally beaten at the Occoquan Workhouse (now the Workhouse Arts Center). These women were subsequently tortured and endured horrific treatment as prisoners. It wasn't until 1920 that the 19th Amendment was ratified.

PQ's program "Voices of Change" will provide a snapshot of music in 1917, celebrating the Centennial of Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and the music of Lilli Boulanger.

PUBLIQuartet presents a PUBLIQ Access World Premiere, "Silent Sentinels" (2017) by Steven Snowden at the Workhouse Arts Center to honor the women who suffered the Night of Terror at the Occoquan Workhouse. PUBLIQuartet will present a concert program titled, “ ‘17", inspired by resistance and change. The works on this program will provide a musical snapshot of the year 1917 to commemorate historical events and the birth of influential composers’ who pushed against oppression 100 years ago.